On Jan 4, 10:23pm, Vaughn L. Treude wrote:

> 8. From the old configuration, I did a "cp -R -f -d" for all the directories
> under "/" and "/home" on the old disk to copy everything to the new.  Before
> I did this, I saved the original copies of the new configuration's fstab and
> lilo.conf files, which I later restored to the partition names would be
> right on the new disk.

It looks to me like this is one of your problems.  The "cp -R -f -d"
command won't preserve the permissions and other file attributes.  You
should use the -p switch in addition to the above switches.  GNU cp
allows you to specify this more succinctly via the -a switch.

Kevin